$300,000.00+ RECOVERY IN COMBINED ESTATE/TRUST DISPUTE IN ILLINOIS, BELLEVILLE, ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILLINOIS TRUST LITIGATION, ESTATE DISPUTE AND WILL CONTEST LAW FIRM. WE WERE CONTACTED BY AN OUT-OF-STATE CLIENT FOR REPRESENTATION IN REGARD TO A DISPUTE INVOLVING VARIOUS FACTIONS OF A FARMING FAMILY AS WELL AS ESTATE PLANNING DOCUMENTS THAT WERE PREPARED AN EXECUTED AT A TIME WHEN OUR CLIENT BELIEVED THAT THE MAKERS WERE NOT OF SOUND MIND OR THAT THERE WAS DURESS OR UNDUE INFLUENCE THAT BASICALLY INTERFERED WITH AN INHERITANCE EXPECTANCY OF OUR CLIENT AND CERTAIN MEMBERS OF OUR FAMILY. AFTER A TRUST LAWSUIT WAS FILED, THERE WAS A RESOLUTION REACHED WHEREBY OUR CLIENT AND HIS FAMILY AGREED TO RECEIVE IN EXCESS OF $300,000.00, WHICH CONSTITUTED A FABULOUS SETTLEMENT WHICH EXCEEDED THE EXPECTATIONS OF OUR CLIENT IN THAT IT WAS A RESULT THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE IF THE CASE HAD BEEN TRIED, INCLUDING AFTER WRITTEN DISCOVERY AND DEPOSITIONS. AS A RESULT OF THE SETTLEMENT REACHED, THERE WAS SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS IN TIME AND EXPENSE AND SINCE THE RESULT WAS MORE THAT WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED AT TRIAL, THERE WAS NO COMPROMISE BY OUR CLIENT IN TERMS OF THE AMOUNT OUR CLIENT AND HIS FAMILY AGREED TO RECEIVE IN SETTLEMENT. THE CASE WAS HARD-FOUGHT WITHIN A RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND OUR CLIENT RECEIVED A VERY FAVORABLE RESULT WITHOUT ANY TRIAL OR APPEALS. AVAILABLE TO REPRESENT CLIENTS FROM PIATT COUNTY, MONTICELLO, BEMENT AND CERRO GORDO, MENARD COUNTY, ATHENS, PETERSBURG AND GREENVIEW, ADAMS COUNTY, QUINCY AND CAMP POINT, ILLINOIS